[SOLVED] trouble with character encoding tag

[Jago6060]

I'm trying to use the W3C html validator but is says it can't do it because I don't have a character encoding type.  here is the line with the character encoding in it.

 

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="hcfl.css" charset="utf-8" />

 

any ideas what may be wrong?

[peranha]

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />

 

it usually means something like that and will go in the head of the page.

[Jago6060]

Thanks.  I put that line in and tried to revalidate it, and it says there is a character on line 46 of the index.html page that cannot be encoded to utf-8.

				<center>
				<br />
				<br />
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			</center>

Those are the lines where the error should be contained.  I wasn't sure which line is technically #46.

[haku]

Your problem may lie in your double quotes. They are the only ones I can see that may potentially not be contained within utf-8. Try deleting the quotes and validating just to see if that's where your problem is. If it is, you will have to use a more standard set of quotes rather than the one's that point inwards to the word they are containing.

[Jago6060]

Well after much time of trial and error I've finally figured out...the error.  The code I had was originally written in Notepad++ and copy and pasted to the web host.  So I deleted and rewrote that block of text and that fixed it.